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There was much ado last year when The Affiliate List was published, and it included detailed information on affiliates.

The list included publicly available information such as meta page data (title and keywords), inbound traffic sources, outbound traffic URLs, AdWords paid advertising activity, SPAM blacklist status, URLs registered to their IP address and more.

Anyhow, this big peek into the activity made some affiliates very uncomfortable. After all, who wants to let it be known that…

There have been lots of suggestions about how Affiliate Summit can enrich the conference experience for the attendees. One thing requested repeatedly has been a social network.

After a month of working on specs and looking at potential vendors, the Affiliate Summit Social Network is open for business.

The purpose of this social network is to enable Affiliate Summit attendees to make connections with industry colleagues before, during and after the Affiliate Summit shows.

We’ve set it up…

Check out the eBook from Brian Clark of Copyblogger.com. He lists 11 ways to build links using viral tactics.

(Hat tip to Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal for his useful obsession about link baiting.)

All I can say is that I wish I had thought of this myself! But, Rosalind Gardner being the amazing researcher she is made a post yesterday that blew me away.

She went and researched 39 other PPC programs out there that you can test/use instead of Google Adsense. There are many people who are disheartened because they have been removed from Google Adsense for various reasons - well don’t be, there are many other programs!

More detailed information - Go to Rosalind’s blog - Contextual Advertising: Google Adsense Alternatives

Here are the 39 that Rosalind reviews:

1. Adagency
2. AdBrite
3. Advertising.com
4. AffiliateSensor ***
5. AllFeeds
6. AzoogleAds
7. BidClix***
8. Bidvertiser
9. Buds Media Network
10. Burst Media
11. Casale Media
12. Chitika eMiniMalls ***
13. Claxon
14. Clickcent
15. Clicksor***
16. ContextCash***
17. ContextClick
18. contextWeb ContextAd
19. DynamiContext (Kontera)
20. Enhance Interactive
21. Fastclick
22. Hurricane Digital Media
23. Kanoodle Bright Ads
24. Mamma Media Solutions
25. MIVA AdRevenue Xpress
26. Nixie
27. Quigo AdSonar
28. RealCast Media
29. RealTechNetwork
30. Revenue Pilot
31. Right Media
32. Searchfeed ***
33. TargetPoint
34. Traffic Marketplace
35. Tribal Fusion
36. ValueClick
37. Veoda
38.Vibrant Media IntelliTXT & SmartAds***
39.Yahoo Publisher Network

Rosalind reviews each one in depth - click here…

Yesterday I wrote about the poor results one of my affiliate websites achieves in the search engines result pages: Check Out My Google Stats.
Here are more stats for that same site:
Commissions Earned This Month: $191.25
Amount of Sales: 32
Avg Commission/Sale: $5.97
This is a straight affiliate product site - no contextual advertising of any kind.
Simple, low [...]

The deadline for submitting speaker proposals for Affiliate Summit 2006 East is February 28.

If you are interested in speaking, please read through the information below to increase your odds on being selected. Please note - there are a limited number of speaking slots, so you may be offered a space in a session other that the one which you submitted.

If accepted, you’ll receive a pass to Affiliate Summit. Travel and hotel are not included.

Some important things to bear in mind…

We…

I was chatting with some affiliate managers recently, and they asked if there were any sort of mentor programs to help out new affiliate managers.

I was stumped. It seemed like a natural enough idea, but there isn’t really anything organized to help the newbies. Sure, they can lurk and participate in forums with other affiliate managers, but offline interactions aren’t really being leveraged.

This brought me back to the days when I first moved up to NYC. I joined up with the Big Brothers…

Here are this month’s stats for one of my bitty affiliate sites:
Yahoo 1339
MSN 541
Overture 18
AltaVista 14
Unknown search engines 6
Ask Jeeves 6
Dogpile 6
AllTheWeb 5
Excite 3
Google 1
Mamma 1
MetaCrawler (Metamoteur) 1
WISENut 1
Search.com 1
Jubii 1
No, that’s not a typo. Google has sent me one visitor. And no the site is not banned or grey barred.
One thing I promised [...]

Moving full steam ahead into the classified ads arena, Google is expanding the options for users of Base. eBay look out! MSN adCenter coming up fast!…

This promises to be some horse race.

My brain’s always pumping out ideas. Pop pop pop. Unfortunately - I have a harder time being creative and coming up with good ideas for areas and projects when and where I actually need them most.
Being stuck and ‘paralyzed by inaction’ is frustrating - so what’s a girl to do?
I bought a book [...]